Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has wavy brown hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His childhood dream was to be a Ploughman, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 7000 cp. Sard (40 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He found a children's book about a Gnome Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp. Obsidian (8 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Zircon (50 gp).

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His black hair is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Traubon was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man is typically in his Herbalist uniform and is in decent physical shape. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are red.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Heskan has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Courier again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is chestnut and curly. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Gifted from a young age, Borun studied abroad. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 350 gp.